Pitch Black (2000)
A spaceship transporting a wide variety of passengers crashes on a “ghost” planet whose last inhabitants mysteriously died off over twenty years before. Surviving on the desert planet proves to be a chore, not...
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Supernova (2000)
What starts out as intriguing if derivative sci-fi soon descends into meaningless horror and in the end a real letdown from a cast and crew of professionals who should know better. From the fact...
Independence Day (1996)
In the 1990s, it seems that if you’re given a budget over $100 million, the rule of thumb is to put 90% of it into special effects, while whatever paltry sum is left should...
Sphere (1998)
Michael Crichton began writing “Sphere” in 1969 as a conceptual follow-up idea after his best-selling novel, “The Andromeda Strain”. He liked sci-fi stories where aliens wouldn’t resemble humans in any way. Whereas “The Andromeda...